Re: [PATCH 4/4] softirq: no need to have SOFTIRQ in softirq name

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 13 2009 - 01:21:44 EST


On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:04:50 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Impact: clean up
>
> It is redundant to have 'SOFTIRQ' in the softirq names.
>
> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/softirq.c | 5 ++---
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
> index a5e8123..65ff3e3 100644
> --- a/kernel/softirq.c
> +++ b/kernel/softirq.c
> @@ -55,9 +55,8 @@ static struct softirq_action softirq_vec[NR_SOFTIRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
>
> char *softirq_to_name[NR_SOFTIRQS] = {
> - "HI_SOFTIRQ", "TIMER_SOFTIRQ", "NET_TX_SOFTIRQ", "NET_RX_SOFTIRQ",
> - "BLOCK_SOFTIRQ", "TASKLET_SOFTIRQ", "SCHED_SOFTIRQ", "HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ",
> - "RCU_SOFTIRQ"
> + "HI", "TIMER", "NET_TX", "NET_RX", "BLOCK",
> + "TASKLET", "SCHED", "HRTIMER", "RCU"
> };
>

hm, I was thinking that you'd also do

printk("%s_SOFTIRQ", ...)

but whatever.
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